Belinda the sea sponge has a lot going on for an animal that can't go anywhere. Canadian researchers have used four years of time-lapse footage from the sea floor of British Columbia to paint ...

A sea sponge observed off the coast of Vancouver Island for more than four years was found to both hibernate and “sneeze” in behaviours thought to expel waste and adapt to a changing ocean ...

By the middle of the 20th century, the amount of warming that had taken place across both sea and land, when calculated using the sponge records, was about half a degree Celsius greater than ...

These drugs have one thing in common: They are derived from a sponge. Yes, a sponge. Or more specifically, a sea sponge. Sea sponges, a kind of aquatic animal found in oceans and some lakes ...

Sea sponges are some of the oldest creatures ... which builds up on their little sponge-y surfaces. When that mucus becomes too much, the sponge tissues contract and push the waste-filled snot ...

Christopher Mah, a team member on NOAA’s ship Okeanos Explorer, came across a bright yellow sea sponge and pink starfish next to each other on the ocean floor that reminded him of the ...

Deep-sea sponge's 'zero-energy' flow control could inspire new energy efficient designs. ScienceDaily . Retrieved May 30, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 05 / 240517111518.htm ...

Warming ocean temperatures are affecting sea sponge populations in other parts of New Zealand too, Bell noted. Swathes of dead sea sponges were discovered in the country’s northern coastal areas.

using bacteria and enzymes from sea sponges to create tiny microlenses that mimic the sea sponge's natural ability to combine strength and lightness. In a paper published in the journal PNAS ...

Like most waterfront cities, Boston has lost much of its spongy wetlands to development. And because of sea rise, it has so-called "wicked high tides" even on sunny days. Kongjian Yu and Cathy ...